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I've never read any of her stuff, but I found this on another forum.
Apparently her newest book, Blood Canticle fucking bites.
Well, with all the negative reviews she got on amazon.com she went crazy and posted this in the review section for her own book.
She also gave it 5 stars in the process :rolleyes:

Anne "Crazy Bitch" Rice wrote:

Seldom do I really answer those who criticize my work. In fact, the entire development of my career has been fueled by my ability to ignore denigrating and trivializing criticism as I realize my dreams and my goals. However there is something compelling about Amazon's willingness to publish just about anything, and the sheer outrageous stupidity of many things you've said here that actually touches my proletarian and Democratic soul. Also I use and enjoy Amazon and I do read the reviews of other people's books in many fields. In sum, I believe in what happens here. And so, I speak. First off, let me say that this is addressed only to some of you, who have posted outrageously negative comments here, and not to all. You are interrogating this text from the wrong perspective. Indeed, you aren't even reading it. You are projecting your own limitations on it. And you are giving a whole new meaning to the words "wide readership." And you have strained my Dickensean principles to the max. I'm justifiably proud of being read by intellectual giants and waitresses in trailer parks,in fact, I love it, but who in the world are you? Now to the book. Allow me to point out: nowhere in this text are you told that this is the last of the chronicles, nowhere are you promised curtain calls or a finale, nowhere are you told there will be a wrap-up of all the earlier material. The text tells you exactly what to expect. And it warns you specifically that if you did not enjoy Memnoch the Devil, you may not enjoy this book. This book is by and about a hero whom many of you have already rejected. And he tells you that you are likely to reject him again. And this book is most certainly written -- every word of it -- by me. If and when I can't write a book on my own, you'll know about it. And no, I have no intention of allowing any editor ever to distort, cut, or otherwise mutilate sentences that I have edited and re-edited, and organized and polished myself. I fought a great battle to achieve a status where I did not have to put up with editors making demands on me, and I will never relinquish that status. For me, novel writing is a virtuoso performance. It is not a collaborative art. Back to the novel itself: the character who tells the tale is my Lestat. I was with him more closely than I have ever been in this novel; his voice was as powerful for me as I've ever heard it. I experienced break through after break through as I walked with him, moved with him, saw through his eyes. What I ask of Lestat, Lestat unfailingly gives. For me, three hunting scenes, two which take place in hotels -- the lone woman waiting for the hit man, the slaughter at the pimp's party -- and the late night foray into the slums --stand with any similar scenes in all of the chronicles. They can be read aloud without a single hitch. Every word is in perfect place. The short chapter in which Lestat describes his love for Rowan Mayfair was for me a totally realized poem. There are other such scenes in this book. You don't get all this? Fine. But I experienced an intimacy with the character in those scenes that shattered all prior restraints, and when one is writing one does have to continuously and courageously fight a destructive tendency to inhibition and restraint. Getting really close to the subject matter is the achievement of only great art. Now, if it doesn't appeal to you, fine. You don't enjoy it? Read somebody else. But your stupid arrogant assumptions about me and what I am doing are slander. And you have used this site as if it were a public urinal to publish falsehood and lies. I'll never challenge your democratic freedom to do so, and yes, I'm answering you, but for what it's worth, be assured of the utter contempt I feel for you, especially those of you who post anonymously (and perhaps repeatedly?) and how glad I am that this book is the last one in a series that has invited your hateful and ugly responses. Now, to return to the narrative in question: Lestat's wanting to be a saint is a vision larded through and through with his characteristic vanity. It connects perfectly with his earlier ambitions to be an actor in Paris, a rock star in the modern age. If you can't see that, you aren't reading my work. In his conversation with the Pope he makes observations on the times which are in continuity with his observations on the late twentieth century in The Vampire Lestat, and in continuity with Marius' observations in that book and later in Queen of the Damned. The state of the world has always been an important theme in the chronicles. Lestat's comments matter. Every word he speaks is part of the achievement of this book. That Lestat renounced this saintly ambition within a matter of pages is plain enough for you to see. That he reverts to his old self is obvious, and that he intends to complete the tale of Blackwood Farm is also quite clear. There are many other themes and patterns in this work that I might mention -- the interplay between St.Juan Diago and Lestat, the invisible creature who doesn't "exist" in the eyes of the world is a case in point. There is also the theme of the snare of Blackwood Farm, the place where a human existence becomes so beguiling that Lestat relinquishes his power as if to a spell. The entire relationship between Lestat and Uncle Julien is carefully worked out. But I leave it to readers to discover how this complex and intricate novel establishes itself within a unique, if not unrivalled series of book. There are things to be said. And there is pleasure to be had. And readers will say wonderful things about Blood Canticle and they already are. There are readers out there and plenty of them who cherish the individuality of each of the chronicles which you so flippantly condemn. They can and do talk circles around you. And I am warmed by their response. Their letters, the papers they write in school, our face to face exchanges on the road -- these things sustain me when I read the utter trash that you post. But I feel I have said enough. If this reaches one reader who is curious about my work and shocked by the ugly reviews here, I've served my goals. And Yo, you dude, the slang police! Lestat talks like I do. He always has and he always will. You really wouldn't much like being around either one of us. And you don't have to be. If any of you want to say anything about all this by all means Email me at [email]Anneobrienrice@mac.com[/email]. And if you want your money back for the book, send it to [address on Amazon]. I'm not a coward about my real name or where I live. And yes, the Chronicles are no more! Thank God!

I like most Anne Rice Books but she made a bit of an over-reaction here. Remember when someone on Salon made a load of negative comments about Diary and Chuck just put her in her place with a few lines? Anne Rice Knew Blood Canticle wasn't up to par and it shows. You know what she did that was good? Belinda. Oh, but not Cry to Heaven or The Servant of The Bones or the one with the Randy Mummy.

i dont speak frenchy but i hope that doesnt allude to someone else being there
i performed a solo baby !

Etude means "study" and is typically a solo for one instrument, like the piano. I think the Etude is either meant to teach specific techniques, or to show off your technical skills, which I would guess would apply to whatever you were doing.

Man, I wasn't even gonna open the thread. Haven't read an Anne Rice book in years. Sisters loved her. Mom, too. Several of my x-girls did. I read a couple. Didn't/couldn't get into the work. But it was good, I thought, in another genre type of way. In otherwords, I can understand why people like her.

Just read the posted review, word for word. Always interested when an acclaimed writer has comments about writing. But damn.

Will go to Amazon in the morrow and check out the full load. Maybe even send her a letter, as I'm sure her email is orcha fat overloaded for the next few years. She's really a cool person. One of my old girlfriends went to a few of her parties years ago. My brother's wife--well, widow--went, too. Back when we were all kids, so many years ago, so many tears ago, so many pills ago, so many hallucinogenic experiments ago… All kinds of people got really fucked up at the Rice house. Very cool lady, overall, I've been told. Personally, I've never met here. Cannot say that I’ve ever had the desire to. But I do know that it is a poor fool that goes to that woman’s house to start trouble. She has a lot of devoted followers, and a lot of crazies. Well armed, menacing. Bring ill-will there and it is returned, many fold. She’s just uptight? No, she is Anne Rice. She is hard-core. She is just being herself plus angered a few degrees more.

Common, yaw. You think she writes cause she likes to make up shit? She has breathed the same life for many, many moons now. Not saying that she is a vampire or anything, but she has the darkness, the crookedness deep in her, for sure.

I can’t say anything bad about the woman; [I]Interview with a Vampire [/I] was read to me as a bedtime story many moons ago. The only other book I read was Violin, and honestly, I couldn’t follow the narrative.

I have to credit her resolve. She’s a writer who has fought hard to write the way she wants.

She's always received criticism, so I’m surprised she would give two shits about what people say about her work. But then again, if you put your heart into a novel for a couple of years, you can’t help but have a knee jerk reaction when people piss and shit on it.

Tsk, tsk, so sad when authors are in denial about their declining talents. However, I'm sure that Rice can pick up the peices, but it will be really hard after pulling a stunt like that. I'm sure a lot of fans are looking at her in a negative light and may not want to buy her upcoming books after this little tantrum.

Tsk, tsk, so sad when authors are in denial about their declining talents. However, I'm sure that Rice can pick up the peices, but it will be really hard after pulling a stunt like that. I'm sure a lot of fans are looking at her in a negative light and may not want to buy her upcoming books after this little tantrum.

I don't think it's that her talents as a writer are declining, it's just that she should have let go of Lestat after Memnoch The Devil, or even Queen of the Damned. She based Lestat on her husband, he died recently so she gets a buffer zone of about a year to not take criticism as graciously as she might have done under normal circumstances.

i think this is pretty typical i for boring franchise writers that don't know how to put down what was once a good story and move on.
her little rant reads like a frustrated, washed-up writer that is more angry with herself and her fading abilities than the reviews she receiving.
my advice to anne: pick a different genre, king did it, why can't you?

king is by no means the greatest writer in the world, but if you sit down and read the shining you can appreciate a great horror story, but then he'll turn around and write totally different stories. most horror or sci fi writers get locked into writing a franchise because they jsut don't know how to stop and once they get locked in they get bored and their stories get old and boring.
someone like neil gaiman on the other hand has diversity because he is constantly challenging himself to do better every time.

I must admit that I did not read the "rant" by Mrs. Rice as I am sure it was just that, an emotional rant written without thinking first about the effects it would have nor the repercussions. I unfortunately speak before thinking all of the time so perhaps I might understand.

Anyway, I enjoyed "Blood Canticle" and thought that although it was a weak link in the Witches Mayfair and Vampire Chronicles' storylines, that it did provide a fond farewell for the characters that some of us have been following for quite some time.

The only real peeve I have against Rice is that in a first edition of "The Vampire Lestat" she told the tale of Lestat's maker and described him as one with [b]long grey hair named Magnus[/b], then when we get past "Queen of the Damned" etc, and meet the Keeper of Those Who Must Be Kept, this person (Lestat's maker) is now an Ancient Roman with [b]short blonde hair named Marius[/b]! Now I came to love the Marius character, but even up to the last page of "Canticle" was asking "What the hell happened to Magnus?" I even checked my copy of "Lestat" to see if I had been mistaken on the nomenclature of Lestat's maker, which I had not.

Mrs. Rice, I have enjoyed your work as enjoyable fiction, but perhaps the assistance of an editor would have saved you from making such a tremendous and unforgiveable faux pas as misnaming and describing a central character!!

I used to like Anne Rice back when i was in high school, the witching hour still is the longest book i have read, even if i got bored by most of it.

She is a sad old lady and if she wrote those things it wouldn't surprising. After Lestat the vampire her characters became late night 50's horror movies. They should release a Lestat vs. Dracula movie... err... maybe not...

I just don't believe that she would write that...She has so many fans and has made so much fucking money she shouldn't be worried if a few people don't like her books.

it does seem like an odd thing for an author to do. of course, i find it much harder to believe that she turned her life over to Jesus and then wrote an "historically based" fiction novel about his upbringing. who knows.
i personally just read Interview for the first time a few weeks ago. i was completely surprised by how fucking good it was, i didn't except too much. it's also the first novel by a female author i've ever completed. this is not a sexist thing, it's just a.... thing. a few years ago Jane S asked who my favorite female author was and i realized i had never finished reading anything by a girl. i'm gonna get a copy of Lestat and hope it's just as good, although the first person narration of the first has a lot to do with why i liked it. i'm assuming that the second novel is all third person, inasmuch as Loius is no longer telling the story.

and i trust that his style of story-telling bears a striking resemblance to that of Loius?
meh, not really a question i expect to be answered. thanks for the info though, hopefully i can get my hands on it soon.

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